Re: What do you think about applicaion clustering in Oracle 9i?

Dino Hsu wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Oracle 9i is featured by its application clustering with:
> 1.trasparency to applications (you can run SAP, Sieble, Peoplesoft
> without modifications)
> 2.effective scaling: performance and relibility will be increased with
> more computers:
> 2-1.performance gain by the factor of 90% for one additional computer
> 2-2.reliablity: no single point of failure, every computer is a hot
> stand-by, can we call this a symmetical-clustering?
> 3.cost down with many cheap small computers instead of an expensive
> big one
>
> What do you think about it? Thanks.
>
> Dino

I think it is six to twelve months too early to comment.

In theory it is great. But no one has enough experience with the practical application to give a reasoned response.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Sat Jun 16 2001 - 20:18:13 CDT